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STILL WORKING MY WAY through maps for the Casual English Bible atlas of Genesis, I spent much of yesterday trying to illustrate the Flood story as it’s reported in Genesis 7. It’s unbelievable, as far as some Christians are concerned. …
When Noah’s son Ham found him passed out drunk, Ham invited his brothers to take a look – which they refused to do. For Ham’s disrespect, Noah put a curse on his son, Canaan and his descendants, the Canaanites. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages …
Noah and his family didn’t stay on the boat for just 40 days. It took a year for the floodwater to subside enough for them to disembark. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 59-60. Casual English Bible
An Iraqi flood story from hundreds of years before Moses could have written Genesis tells about another man who built a boat to survive a flood. He took his family and animals aboard. He even released a dove and raven like Noah did to scout for land. …
The human race survives just 10 generations before God says they’ve gotten so evil that he needs a do-over. Cue Noah. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 50.
Curse-Buster. That’s apparently Noah’s name, or close to it. His dad said he named his son Noah in hopes that God would give people relief from the hard work they had to do after God cursed the land. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 48. Genesis …
NOAH IS OUR GRANDPA, the Bible says. We’re all related to him since his family is the only one the Bible says survived the worldwide flood. So why don’t we look like him? Why do some of us look like the relative nobody in the family wants to talk …
GREEK MYTHOLOGY has nothing on the Bible when it comes to stories of divine beings having sex with hot-looking human women. At least that’s how some say they read a weird Bible passage: “Divine beings saw how beautiful these human women were, …
I JUST GOT BACK from watching the movie “Noah,” with my wife. I don’t recommend it. The movie. Or watching it with my wife. She jumps too much. The movie didn’t scare me. My wife did. She’d get excited when I wouldn’t, ‘cause I’m relaxed watching …
“I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes.” God to Noah, Genesis 6:17 EARTH BECAME WATERWORLD, as the Bible tells it. Anything that breathed got buried at sea—except those lucky enough to be …
CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD tell of a Great Flood. One shows up in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Babylonian tale estimated to have been written more than 3,600 years ago. One fragment of the story, considered a copy, dates to about 2,600 years ago. Here’s …
IF GOD IS SO GOOD, why’d he kill everybody—people and animals? Killing everybody is overkill. If someone at the dinner table offends you, it’s not kosher to kill them. And it certainly makes no sense to kill everyone else, too, along with Buddy the …
